Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though his education was exclusively at the hands of palace tutors, King Mahendra had acquired modern ideas and set about introducing them to Nepal. He directed the drafting of a new constitution himself and, with the aid of $30 million in U.S. aid, built schools, roads and a radiotelephone network. In 1959, with Mahendra's consent and blessing, Nepal conducted its first election. The Nepali Congress Party, led by India-trained, vaguely socialist B. P. Koirala, won 74 out of 109 seats...
...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
...stock for one of Nickel Plate's. To close the 111-mile gap between the end of his tracks at Columbus and the Nickel Plate's at Sandusky, he wants to buy the Sandusky Line from the Pennsylvania Railroad for $27 million. Finally, to push his network into Michigan and west to Omaga, he plans to lease the Wabash Railroad for $7,125,000 annually for six years, eventually merge with it by exchanging 675,000 shares of N. & W. stock for all of the Wabash's 598,186 shares...
...okay on a new 4,700 mile rail network made up by merging the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. Wisconsin Central, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. All are subsidiaries of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The merger calls for formation of a new company to be called the Soo Line Railroad...
Open End (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* Network viewers' first look at a shortened version of David Susskind's spontaneous speakeasies, with Joey Bishop, George Burns, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett and Groucho Marx trying to get a word...